Linux ps

PS sytax.

-a List information about all processes most frequently requested: all those except process group leaders and processes not associated with a terminal.

-A List information for all processes. Identical to -e, below.

-c Print information in a format that reflects scheduler properties as described in priocntl. The -c option affects the output of the -f and -l options, as described below.

-d List information about all processes except session leaders.

-e List information about every process now running.

-f Generate a full listing.

-j Print session ID and process group ID.

-l Generate a long listing.

-L Print information about each light weight process (lwp) in each selected process.

-P Print the number of the processor to which the process or lwp is bound, if any, under an additional column header, PSR.

-y Under a long listing (-l), omit the obsolete F and ADDR columns and include an RSS column to report the resident set size of the process. Under the -y option, both RSS and SZ will be reported in units of kilobytes instead of pages.

Example This will look through all the process and show only where the line contains the work 'java'

ps -Af | grep java